UNTITLED (LINES BODIES) | Juliana Huxtable

UNTITLED (LINES BODIES)

I HAD NOTHING TO SAYWHILE TRYING TO GRAPPLE WITH SOMETHING THAT SEEMED SO OBVIOUS, OBTUSE, REDUNDANT.THE IMAGES, TRINKETS OF OLD NEW YORKNAUSEATING TRADEMARKS OF A LATE HUMANISMWERE UBIQUITOUS—HYDROGEN BONDS OF “VISUAL CULTURE”… A DIZZYING YAWN

THEY CIRCULATED IN MEMORY PLANNED TO PUSH OUT CLIPART PAINTSTROKES OF THE RC COLA CAN, BUT FORGETTING THE NOSTALGIA OF A FAMILY BBQ.

THE IMAGES SHARE THE SAME BOLDLY DETERMINED FIGURATIONCIRCULATED POP, QUOTIDIAN, COLLEGE POSTER

THEY WERE EVERYWHERE I DIDN’T WANT TO BESHOPPING WITH MY MOTHER ON CLEARANCE RACKS IN SECOND-RATE SHOPPING MALLS, CLUTTERING 42ND ST MANHATTAN ONTRIPS FROM NEW JERSEY WITH MY FATHER TO SEE RENT AFTER 'EXPLORING THE CITY'

IN BANNER ADS FOR WALL DECALS AND COFFEE MUGS CLUTTERING THE ONLINE MAGAZINES I WANTED TO READ IN A PEACE, AWAY FROM FACEBOOK’S POOR ATTEMPT AT UNDERSTANDING MY CONSUMER DESIRES.

LET THEM CIRCULATE IN REINCARNATION, DANCING ON SCREEN SAVERS.

TRAINS AND SIDEWALKS IN THE CITY PROVIDE A CERTAIN FREEDOM TOUNMEDIATED MOVEMENTTRAVEL ACROSS AND, IN AN ACT OF FREEDOM (NO CARS) AND RITUAL, IN THE NAME OF PHYSICAL UNBOUNDEDNESS, EVEN IF IN SPITE OF THE POLICING OF THE SAME,

RECOGNIZE THE LINES IN SUBWAY STATIONSHOLDING ON TO THEIR BRICK EMBANKMENTSWALKING BYFACE UP IN AIRPLANE MODE

INITIALLY, TESTAMENTS TO AN ERA WHERE THE CITY WAS ANIMATED BY THE CITIZEN-CREATED PUBLIC WORK ON PUBLIC SURFACES (UNCOMISSIONED).HOW BEAUTIFUL, A VIBRANT SPLASH OF COLORFUL OPTIMISM IN A CYNICAL AND CYNICALLY DESIGNED CITY

LINES AND BODIES, CONGENIALITY IMBUED IN THEIR COLORFUL MOVEMENT AND ALSO SOMETHING OTHER … SINISTER, SARDONIC, AND DYSTOPIC IN THEIR PREDILECTIONS

MIRAGES OF GREETING CARD SENTIMENTALITY GIVE WAYAND WITH IT THE BASTARDIZED OFFSPRING OF ART-AS-COMMERCELEAVING BEHIND A VICTIM

REAL EYES IN A REAL CITY-IN-TRANSIT WHERE THE NOSTALGIC LAMENTS OF THE LIVING LEGENDS OF DOWN- AND UP- TOWN BOHEMIAS NEED LITTLE CITATION IN THEIR JADEDNESS

THE LOSS OF ZEITGEIST AS SUCH / NOTED, REFERENCED Id. INFINITUM, WITH PAPERWORKTO PROVE AND EXPANSIVE WINDOWS FOR SCALE, IN NEUTRAL TONED, CHEAP AND DERIVATE MODERNIST CONDOS

OVER-DISTRUBUTED OBJECTS OF CONSUMPTION SATURATING THE LIQUIDATEDMARKETS OF FACTORY PRODUCED HOUSEHOLD ORNAMENTSSIMULTANEOUSLY SUPPORTING THE FOUNDATION'S ENTERPRISE AND TEACHING ME FUNDAMENTALS OF A VISUAL LANGUAGE CASTRATED OF ITS GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE IN THIS FORM

FIGURES DELIVERED AS SYMBOLS OF A NEU HUMANISM

REPRODUCTIONS FLATTENED THE TEXTURES LEFT IN THE TRAILS OF BRUSH STROKES AND MERGED THE MOST BENEVOLENT SYMBOLS IN THIS LEXICON TO THE MOST IMMEDIATE “ON SALE” MONSTERS OF THE NEOLIBERAL ORDER.

AND ELSEWHEREOUTLINED FIGURES SNICKER IN HOSPITAL WALKWAYSDANCE ABOVE PUBLIC POOLSFUCK FREELY IN MENS BATHROOMS IN WEST VILLAGE BUILDINGS WHERE THE PLUMBING HAS SINCE BEEN RE-ROUTEDREMIND EVERY EYE PASSING BY A CERTAIN ROADSIDE IN HARLEM OF THE VILLAINS (AND SAINTS) THAT POSSES THE CITY

CONTINUITY IN THE LINE(S) REMAINS UNBROKENALL THE MORE APPARENT IN THE LIMINAL ZONE OF A CITY WHERE THE MTA CONNECTS THEBORDER OF ONE MURAL AT THE STATION OF DEPARTURE TO THEFOLD OF A LEG ON MOUNTED FIGURE IN A PARK OUTSIDE THE STATION OF ARRIVAL.

IT HAS MADE ITS WAY ACROSS GENERATIONS OF BULBS-TURNED-PIXELATED CARTOGRAPHY IN ANIMATED SIGNAGE AND IT PROTESTS THERACIST STATE SPONSORED BRUTALITY OF THE NYPDTRACING AND DISTORTING THE FIGURE OF MICHAEL STEWARTFILLING THE FACELESS FIGURES WITH BROWN SKIN AND ARTICULATED FEATURES

THE NATURE OF THEIR WIDE AND RAPID PROLIFERATIONCOULD HAVE FORESEEN LEGACIES AS POOR IMAGES PROMPTING THE CONSUMER OFGIFT WRAP ON SALE AT MACYS TO GOOGLE WHO IN FACT WAS RESPONSIBLESYMBOLS, DEPLETED KINECTIC AUDACITYA SUGGESTION/ MARKERINVITATION TO LINES, BODIES TRANSFORMATIONSOF EMBOD-IED ENERGIESIN ON A JOKE / COGNIZANT OF A MISSIONHOMAGE TO THECURRENT RECURRENT TENDER AGE